Erection date: 15/1/2013
On 15th January 1913 Bamford & Martin Ltd, manufacturers of the first Aston Martin cars, commenced business here.
SW3, Henniker Mews
This is a gated mews and the plaque is out of sight from the street. We were lucky that the gate was open on the day we visited.
Only a few months after this plaque was erected the house was on the market for £2.5M. (We don't think any cars were included in the price.)
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Aston Martin
Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford formed the company, initially as Bamford and...
Barnsbury is surprisingly short of plaques and memorials of any kind, so Anna's plaque is very welcome. But it would be anyway - a unique...
The 3 VC plaques are laid in the ground, in front of the war memorial, to the west. Reading left to right: Johnson, Cather, Fleming-Sande...
On the map of 1862, when this area was first developed, it looks as easy to travel north-south on what is now Rutland Gate/Rutland Street...
From the Imperial College website: The Royal College of Science building was completed in 1906 ….. The building was designed by architect...
Difficult to photograph the whole building. We believe it extends across 7 window bays, our picture showing only the 5 left-most.
Also known as the Beresford Gate (after William Beresford, Master-General of the Ordnance and Governor of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich), and was formerly the main entrance to the Royal Ar...
The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was created in 1900. In 1965 it was merged with Stoke Newington and Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney.
One of the Deacons at the Wandsworth chapel who provided lectures and popular entertainments during the week for the working classes. Active in 1883. Is it possible that he could be the Charles W. ...
Killed by a Greggs delivery vehicle at about 21.20 on a Friday evening, aged 26. The lorry was turning left into Bloomsbury Square (some yards west of the site of the ghost bike). Came here fro...
Grade II Listed. In 1878 Agostino and Stefano Gatti bought the Adelphi Theatre lease and the adjacent building then called the Marble Halls. In the building next to the theatre Spencer Chadwick d...
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